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Syllabus for Distance Education Students
(w.e.f. Year – 2013 – 14)
M.A. Part - I English
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English Syllabus
Index
M.A.I
Semester-I
Paper No
Name of the Course
Course Code
1
Modern Critical Theory
101001
2
Feminist Critical Theory
101113
3
Genre Paper I : Drama
101002
4
Representation of Women in Dramatic Texts
101121
5
Re- Reading Canonical Drama
101303
Semester-II
Paper No
Name of the Course
Course Code
1
Genre Paper II : Novel
201004
2
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth century British Novel
201131
3
Genre Paper III : Poetry
201005
4
The Bhakti Tradition and Twentieth Century Indian
Poetry
201143
5
Novels by Women Writers
201306
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M.A-I
Semester I
Paper – 1 Modern Critical Theory (101001)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To introduce students to significant critical theory which influenced and transformed
literary studies
Sr.No.
Topic and Details
Marks
(i) Ferdinand de Saussure Selections from Modern Criticism and Theory:
A Reader,ed. By David Lodge, Longman: 1988
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(ii) Jacques Derrida Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the
Human Sciences. From Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed. By
Divid Lodge, Longman: 1988
25
Michel Foucault
What is an Author?
2
25
From Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed. By David
Lodge, Longman:1988
Edward Said: Selections from Orientalism,
3
25
Vintage Books, New York 1979.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
4
25
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Recommended Readings:
1. Hudson, William Henry. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic,
2007.
2. Adams, Hazard. Critical Theory Since Plato. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1971.
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3. Nagarajan M. S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History.
Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2006.
4. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New
Delhi:Viva Books, 2008
5. Adams, Hazard. Critical Theory Since Plato. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
6. Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. (8th Edition) New Delhi: Akash Press, 2007.
7. Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2001.
8. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New
Delhi:Viva Books, 2008.
9. Fowler, Roger. Ed. A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms. Rev. ed. London: Routledge
&Kegan Paul, 1987.
10. Habib, M. A. R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present.
London:Blackwell, 2005.
11. Harmon, William; Holman, C. Hugh. A Handbook to Literature. 7th ed. Upper Saddle
River,N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1996.
12. Hall, Donald E. Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced
13. Application. Boston: Houghton, 2001.
14. Jefferson, Anne. and D. Robey, eds. Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative
Introduction,London: Batsford, 1986.
15. Keesey, Donald. Contexts for Criticism. 4th Ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003.
16. Latimer, Dan. Contemporary Critical Theory. San Diego: Harcourt, 1989.
17. Lentriccia, Frank. After the New Criticism. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1980.
18. Lodge, David (Ed.) Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. London: Longman, 1972.
19. Murfin, Ross and Ray, Supryia M. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.
Boston:Bedford/St.Martin's, 2003.
20. Nagarajan M. S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History.
Hyderabad:Orient Black Swan, 2006.
21. Natoli, Joseph, ed. Tracing Literary Theory. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1987.
22. Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.
3rd
23. Ed. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1993.
24. Wolfreys, Julian. ed. Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary .
25. Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
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Paper – 2 Feminist Critical Theories (101113)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To introduce students to varieties of feminist criticism from across the globe.
Sr.No.
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Topic and Details
Virginia Woolf (selections from A Room of one’s own)
Marks
25
Annette Kolodny
Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the
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Theory, Practice and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism’ in
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Feminisms:
Ed by robin r. Warhol and diane price herndl.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty ‘ Under Western Eyes: Feminist
Scholarships and Colonial Discourses in Third World Women
3
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and the Politics of Feminism, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana
University Press.
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Sandra Harding ‘Is there a Feminist Method?’ in Feminism and
Methodology, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
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Recommended Readings
1. Gender & Caste: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism ( New Delhi, Kali for Women,
2003).
2. Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex,( New York, Knopf, 1953).
3. Donovan, Josephine (ed)Feminist Literary Criticism (Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky,1975)
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4. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies.(London:
Routledge.)
5. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics. (London: Routledge, 1985).
6. Nussbaum, Martha (2000)Sex and Justice. New York: Oxford University Press.
7. Braidotti,Rosi(1994) Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference Contemporary
Feminist Theory. Columbia: Columbia University Press.
8. Walby, Susan. (2011) the Future of Feminism. Polity.
9. Warhol Robin and Diane price Herndl Feminisms (1991) New Brunswick, New Jersey,
Rutgers University Press.
10. Wollstonecraft, Mary (1992)A Vindication of the Rights of Women. London. Penguin.
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Paper – 3 Genre Paper I: Drama (101002)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To introduce students to some of the outstanding plays and significant critical theory on
drama and theater
Sr.No.
Topic and Details
Marks
Bharta’s Natyashastra- “Bharatmuni on Natya and Rasa’:
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Aesthetics of Dramatic Experience from the Natyashatra” From Indian
Literary Theory: Theory and Interpretation. Ed.G.N. Devy.
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Constantin Stanislavski
Selections from ‘An Actor Prepares’
2
William Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
25
3
Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
25
4
Samuel Beckett: Endgame
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Recommended Readings
1. Bratton, J. S. (2003) New Readings in Theatre History: Theatre and Performance Theory.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Raghavan V. and Nagendra (ed.)(1970) An Introduction to Indian Poetics. Madras:
MacMillan, 1970.
3. Esslin Martin, the Theatre of the Absurd. (1965) Hammond worth: Penguin.
4. Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary.(1965) translated by Boleslaw Taborski
,London: Metheun.
5. Fortier, Mark. Theory/Theatre: An Introduction.(2002) Routledge
6. Carlson,Marvin. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks
to the present.
7. Krasner, David. Theatre in Theory 1900-2000 an Anthology.
8. Brandt, George W. Modern Theories of Drama. OUP.
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Paper 4 Representation of Women in Dramatic Texts (101121)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To critically examine the representation of women by both male and female dramatists in
drama
Sr.No.
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Topic and Details
Medea : Euripides
Marks
25
2
Rudali : (Play) Usha Ganguli and Mahasweta Devi. Seagull Press
25
3
Antigone : Anouilh
25
4
Pygmalion: George Bernard Shaw.
25
Recommended Readings
1. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics. (London: Routledge, 1985).
2. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination,1979
3. Blondell, R., et al. (Ed.). (1999). Women on the edge: four plays by Euripides. New York,
NY: Routledge.
4. Chakravorty Pivak, Gayatri. ‘Feminism and Critical Theory’. Modern Criticism and Theory.
David Lodge(ed.). Pearson Education(Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
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Paper 5 Re- Reading Canonical Drama (101303)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To enable students to analyze canonical dramatic texts in the light of contemporary
interpretation.
2. To study retelling of well-known dramatic texts
Sr.No.
1
Topic and Details
Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead: Tom Stoppard.
Marks
25
2
Kanchana Sita : C.N.Sreekantan Nair and Sarah Joseph OUP2005
25
3
Lear: Edward Bond
25
4
The Merchant : Arnold Wesker
25
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Semester II
Paper 1 Genre Paper II: Novel (201004)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To introduce students to some of the important critical theories of the novel as well as
seminal novels.
Sr.No.
Topic and Details
Marks
Mikhail Bakhtin ‘From the prehistory of novclistic disourse’
Dialogic Imagination : Four essays (1981) Translated by Caryl
1
25
Emerson and Michael Hoiquist. From Modern criticism and
Theory ed. David Lodge
2
Don Quixote : Cervantes
25
3
Midnight’s Children : Salman Rushdie
25
4
Madame Bovary : Gustave Flaubert New York, Modern Library
Recommended Readings
1. Nicholls, Peter Modernism: A Literary Guide
2. Lewis, Pericles (2001) The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
3. Chatman, Seymour (1978) Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in
Fiction and Film
4. Mc Cabe, Allyssa and Carole Peterson (1991) Developing Narrative Structure
5. Holloway, John (1979) Narrative and Structure
6. Mattingly, Cheryl (1998) Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The
Narrative Structure
7. Carr, David (1991) Time, Narrative and History.
8. Allen, Graham (2000) Intersexuality: The New Critical Idiom
9. Margaret Drabble: The Oxford Companion to English Literature
10. Ryan, Judith (2012) The Novel After Theory
11. Krieger, M. (1989) Reopening of Closure
12. Bowers, Maggie Ann (2004) Magic(al) Realism: The New Critical Idiom
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Paper 2 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth century British Novel
(201131)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To introduce students to the novel from as it emerged in England in the eighteenth
century
2. To enable students to critically understand the different forms of the novel that
emerged in the 19th Century.
Sr.No.
Topic and Details
Marks
1
Tristram Shandy : Lawrence Sterne.
25
2
Wuthering Heights : Emily Bronte
25
3
Great Expectations : Charles Dickens
25
4
Frankenstein : Mary Shelly
25
Recommended Readings
1. Nicholls, Peter Modernism: A Literary Guide
2. Lewis, Pericles (2001) The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
3. Chatman, Seymour (1978) Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
4. Mc Cabe, Allyssa and Carole Peterson (1991) Developing Narrative Structure
5. Holloway, John (1979) Narrative and Structure
6. Mattingly, Cheryl (1998) Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure
7. Carr, David (1991) Time, Narrative and History.
8. Allen, Graham (2000) Intertextuality: The New Critical Idiom
9. Margaret Drabble: The Oxford Companion to English Literature
10. Ryan, Judith (2012) The Novel After Theory
11. Krieger, M. (1989) Reopening of Closure
12. Bowers, Maggie Ann (2004) Magic(al) Realism: The New Critical Idiom
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Paper 3 Genre Paper III: Poetry (201005)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To introduce the students to seminal poetical works and critical theories from across the
world
Sr.No.
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Topic and Details
Harold Bloom : Selections from The Anxiety of Influence And Adrienne
Rich
Marks
25
2
Paradise Lost : Milton
25
3
The Waste Land : T.S. Eliot
25
4
Selections from Norton Anthology Poetry by Women
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Selected Poems from Norton Anthology Literature by Women: The traditions in English by
Gilbert and Gubar, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
List of the poem period wise:
Poem from Middle age and renaissance
1. Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603) into: 27
The Doubt of Future Foes
On Monsieur’s Departure
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury`
2. Mary worth (1587-1651/53) WROTH
When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove
Love, leave to urge
The weary traveller who, tired, sort
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When last I saw thee, I did not thee see
Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun
Song (“Sweet, Let me enjoy the sight
Late in the forest I did Cupid see
My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest
Seventeenth and eighteenths Century poem:
3. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
The Prologue
The Author to Her Book
To My Dear and Loving Husband
4. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
The Willing Mistress
Love Armed
The Disappointment
On her Loving Two Equally
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, imagined More than Women
5. Phillips Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)
On Being Brought From Africa To America
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Darthmouth
To s.m.a young African Painter, on Seeing His Work
To His Excellency, General Washington
Nineteenth century poem
6. Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
From The Grasmere Journals
Peaceful Our Valley, Fair and Green
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7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
A True Dream
Grief
To George Sand: A Desire
To George Sand: A Recognition
The Cry of the Children
The Runway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
8. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Turn of the century 20th Century:
9. Olive Schreiner (1885-1935) –Prose
Women and Labor Prose (Sex-parasitism)
10. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
The Other Side of a Mirror
The Devil’s Funeral
The White Woman
11. Charlotte Mew (1869 – 1928)
The Farmer’s Bride
The Quiet House
Early 20th Century literature:
12. Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925)
The Letter
Venus Transeins
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
Decade
A Critical Fable
13. Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946)
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The gentle Lena Prose
Picasso
14. Mina Loy (1882-1996) – 1360
Gertrude Stein
Three Moments in Paris
One O’ clock at night
Omen of Victory
Photo of Pogrom
Feminist Manifesto prose
15. Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972)
Sojourn in the Whale
Those Various Scalpels
POETRY
To a Snail
An Egyptian pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
16. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
First Fig
Second Fig
17. Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
The Demon Lover - Prose
Later 20th century literature
18. Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
Papa Love Baby
This Englishwomen
19. Dorothy livesay (1909) –
Green Rain
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Eve
The Three Emily’s
The Children’s Letter
20. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Man-moth
Roosters
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore
In the Waiting Room
21. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Boy with his Hair Cut Short
More of a Corpse Than a Women
Letter to the Front
22. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
The mother
The womanhood
We Real Cool
23. Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Her Kind
Housewife
Somewhere in Africa
Consorting with Angels
24. Adrienne Rich (1929-)
I Am in Danger –Sir
25. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963
The Disquieting muses
The colossus
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Stings
Daddy
Medusa
26. Sharon Olds (1942-)
The Language of The Brag
Rite of Passage
Note: Students are required to read the actual poem from prescribed text.
Recommended Readings
1. Gardener, Helen. (1972) The Art of T.S Eliot. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.
2. Williamson, G. (1974) A Readers Guide to T.S Eliot. London: Thames and Hudson.
3. Moody, A. ed. (1994) Cambridge Companion to T.S Eliot. Cambridge University Press
4. Elliot, Bridget and Wallace, Jo Ann. (1994) Women Artists and Writers: Modernist (Im)
positioning. London and New York: Routledge.
5. Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan. (1986). The Female Imagination and the Modernist
Aesthetic. New Haven: Yale University Press
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Paper 4 The Bhakti Tradition and Twentieth Century Indian Poetry
(201143)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To introduce to the tradition of Bhakti poetry in India and Modern Indian Poetry
Sr.No.
1
2
Topic and Details
Marks
Dilip Chitre : Says Tuka (Selections) and Speaking of Shiva : A.K.
Ramanujan (Selections)
Women Bhakti Poets: Meerabai, Bahinabai, Akka
Mahadevi(Selections)
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Selected Early Modernist poetry(Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and
Malayalam)
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4
Selected Post-1970 Modern Poetry (Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
and Malayalam)
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From An Anthology of Marathi Poetry edited by Dilip Chitre and the Tree of Tongues edited by E
V Ramkrishnan
Note-1: The selected poems for study for Unit 1&2 are given below
Unit 1 - Says Tuka Translated and edited by Dilip Chitre
Introduction
Page No.
Part One: Being a Poet
3-12, 18, 27
Part Three: Being a Devotee ...............
69-72, 75, 83-84,
92, 99-101
Part Four: Being in Turmoil ................
115-123, 128
Part Five: Being in Time and Place......
139-140, 144-146
Part Seven: Being a Saint.....................
181-187, 191- 194
Part Nine: Absolutely Being..............
221-225, 230, 239
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From Speaking of Shiva: A. K. Ramanujan
Introduction ..................
1-37
Basavanna......................
43-73
Allama Prabhu...............
125-150
Mahadeviyakka..............
93-124
Note-2: The names of some of the significant poets of unit 3 and 4 are given below. However
students are encouraged also to refer language poets of the same period from
lists/collections/anthologies other than those given in the syllabus.
Unit-III: Early Modernist Poets (Before 1960)
Marathi poetry
Gujarati Poetry
B.S. Mardhekar
Uma Shankar
Joshi
Vinda
Karandikar
Sadananda
Rege
Marathi poetry
Dilip Chitre
Arun Kolatkar
Vasant Dahake
Bhalchandra
Nemade
Namdeo Dhasal
Mallika Amar
Sheikh
Hindi Poetry
Agneya
Niranjan Bhagat
English Poetry:
Dom Moraes
Bangla
Poetry:
Jibanananda
Das
Nissim Ezekiel
Suresh Joshi
Unit-IV Post 1960 Poetry
Gujarati Poetry
Hindi Poetry
English Poetry:
Kedarsath
Labshankar Thakar
Kamala Das
Singh
Sitanshy
Shrikant Verma
A.K. Ramanujan
Yashaschandra
Gulam mohammed Dhoomil
Arun Kolatkar
Sheikh
Joseph Macwan
Gagan Gil
Dilip Chitre
Saroop Dhruv
Teji Grover
Eunice de Souza
Adil Jussawalla
Gieve Patel
Arundhati Subramaniam
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Recommended Readings
1. Quayum, M (ed) 2011 The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore.
2. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan
3. Chitre, Dilip. 1967 An Anthology of Marathi Poetry: 1945-65. Bombay: Nirmala Sadanand
Publishers
4. Ramakrishnan, E.V (ed) 1995 Making it New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi
Poetry. Shimla: IIAS
5. Seely, C. 1990 A Poet Apart: A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet Jibanananda Das
1899-1954. Delaware: University of Delaware Press.
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Paper 5 Novels by Women Writers (201306)
Marks: 100 (4 credits)
Objectives:
1. To study the distinct ways which women writers represent their vision and interpretation
of the society and cultural practice in the novel form
Sr.No.
Topic and Details
Marks
1
Love, AAgain. Doris Lessing, Harper Collins, 1996
25
2
Bashai Tudu : Mahasweta Devi
25
3
Beloved : Toni Morrison
25
4
The Penelopiad : Margaret Atwood, Knopf, Canada 2005
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Recommended Reading:
1. Showalter, Elaine: A Literature of their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to
Lessing (1977) Princeton: Princeton University Press
The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory (1985)
Speaking of Gender (1989)
2. *Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987
The Post-Colonial Critic:Interviews,Srategies,Dialogues (1990)
3. Christian, Barbara
Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (1985) Elmsford, N.Y:
Pergamon Press.
Black Women Novelists: The Development of Tradition, 1892-1976.(1980)
4. Jacobus, Mary. (1987) Reading Women: Essays in Feminist criticism.
New York: Columbia Press.
5. Greene, Gayle and Coppelia Kahn. ed (1985) Making a Difference: Feminist Literary
Criticism. London: Metheun.
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